Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 2 | Last week Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 pubs . |
| 3 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |
| 4 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
| 5 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 6 | The prosecution alleges that , to justify the shooting , the soldiers said they opened fire on a stolen car after it had struck one of their patrol . |
| 7 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
| 8 | It had detected 1,190 cases of fraud in 1991 , costing a total of ECU282,000,000 , of which ECU137,000,000 related to the farm subsidy budget and ECU90,000,000 to customs and agricultural duty fraud . |
| 9 | The party won its right to a place on the ballot after it had gathered 96,000 signatures on a petition . |
| 10 | It had gathered three or four corpses , and was playing with them , slicing them out of their clothes . |
| 11 | In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the Senate resolved its position regarding notification of abortion for minors , on which it had adopted two contradictory measures in July . |
| 13 | Professor S.J. Prais estimates that in 1909 the share of the hundred largest enterprises in manufacturing net output in the UK amounted to 16 per cent approximately , but by 1970 it had reached 40–41 per cent ; while in the U S over the same period the figure grew from 22 per cent to 33 per cent . |
| 14 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 15 | Thus in 1970 EC12 unemployment was only 1.8 per cent , by 1986 it had reached 11.7 per cent ( Fig. 6.2 ) . |
| 16 | When the war ended it had reached 200,000 and by the early 1920s there were a quarter of a million Boy Scouts . |
| 17 | This peak was not reached again for a long period , but by 1989 it had reached 76.4 per cent ( Employment Gazette , November 1989 ) . |
| 18 | It had said four A's , four A's |
| 19 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 20 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 21 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 22 | Because of some delay or other — line workings , Fabia rather thought — her train was late pulling into Mariánské Láznë , and it had gone twelve-thirty before she was ensconced in a taxi and on her way to the hotel which she had left — was it only three days ago ? |
| 23 | But BR said it had employed 5,000 extra staff nationwide and invested an extra £85million on safety in the past year . |
| 24 | A liquidator was called in on March 25 1905 , and finally in the August all 600 men ( at the company 's height it had employed 800 ) were paid off and sent home . |
| 25 | The IS said it had received hundred of letters campaigning for Williams ' release from all over the world . |
| 26 | In its report , the pollution inspectorate said it had received 80,000 responses — 77 per cent of which opposed approval of the plant — but found " no points of substance " to cause it to reconsider the terms of its draft licence for the plant . |
| 27 | The army said that , in three days , it had killed 27 people ; diplomats said that well over 100 had died , and that was just in the capital , Bamako . |
| 28 | UNITA on the other hand claimed that it had killed 82 government troops in these attacks and others in Cabinda and Uige provinces . |
| 29 | By midweek it had killed 115 Peruvians in six weeks . |
| 30 | An unworthy book in many ways , indeed in all perceivable ways , it had engaged one reader in that intimate way that we associate with capital L ‘ Literature ’ . |